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South Orkney Islands
The
South Orkney Islands
are a group of
islands
in the
Southern Ocean
, about north-east of the tip of the
Antarctic Peninsula
. They have a total area of about . The islands are claimed both by Britain (as part of the
British Antarctic Territory
since 1962, previously as a
Falkland Islands Dependency
), and by Argentina as part of
Argentine Antarctica
. Under the 1959
Antarctic Treaty
, sovereignty claims are held in abeyance.
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